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Good interview on Andy Greenwald's Grantland podcast with Michelle MacLaren. She's directed some of the better episodes of Breaking Bad:
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Season 2
"4 Days Out" - the generator episode

Season 3
"I.F.T."
"One Minute" - Hank attacks Jesse, and the cousins try to kill Hank

"Abiquiú"

Season 4
"Thirty-Eight Snub"
"Shotgun" -
"Salud" - Gus poisoning the cartel


Season 5
"Madrigal" - the opening sequence with the food tasting, Lydia is introduced
"Gliding Over All" - Gus' former assoiciates in prison are killed, Hank finds Leaves of Grass
"Buried" - Walt buries the money, Hank questions Skyler about Walt, Marie tries to take Holly, Declans' crew is killed
"To'hajiilee" - last week

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im beginning to wonder if the ricin walt went to retrieve at his home is for the kkk uncle guy, since walt prolly wont end up cooking again after hank gets killed

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go birds wrote:
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im beginning to wonder if the ricin walt went to retrieve at his home is for the kkk uncle guy, since walt prolly wont end up cooking again after hank gets killed
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Quick Take: Machine gun is for the KKK (only if necessary), ricin is for Lydia.

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go birds wrote:Dexter has been bad since like the 3rd episode of season 1
Dexter has been such a disappointment since the end of Season 4. It showed signs last season of a possible short turn around for the final seasons, but just dropped the ball. This season has probably been the worst. I'm actually more interested in Quinn's storyline than anything at this point. The failings of the show aren't isolated to one aspect, but pretty much everything, whether you look at Dexter's lifeless arc(s) or the handling of minor characters like Chicago Mike (what was the point of him?).

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It's hard to call something so agonizing the best, but episode 13 was certainly worthy of superlatives. It may be the most effective episode of television I ever watched.
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The phone call was torturous for me. I thought for sure the arrival of the Nazis was going to be announced by bullets ripping through Hank while he was on the phone. Of course, then we wouldn't have seen Walt try to save Hank.
This is what I signed up for with BB, and, really, basically what I wanted, but man is it grueling (and very worth it).

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Heard this take hinted at elsewhere and I like it -
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the supremacists are done with Walt and take Jesse to cook for them, especially since they now know about Andrea and Brock. Makes sense to me, since Walt told them not to come and they did anyway, and didn't seem to mind shooting at him. Walt has already turned them down, and they'll know his reputation from Todd. Would also explain the machine gun. No idea how Walt would manage to escape them though.

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JackofDiamonds wrote:
go birds wrote:
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im beginning to wonder if the ricin walt went to retrieve at his home is for the kkk uncle guy, since walt prolly wont end up cooking again after hank gets killed
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Quick Take: Machine gun is for the KKK (only if necessary), ricin is for Lydia.
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I'm trying to remember...didn't she spark up a cigarette last episode? I know she was drinking coffee... Wasn't there an episode where she smoked a cigarette recently? Maybe I'm misremembering that. Also, I'm calling the machine gun as a red herring. It's not for killing, it's for something else. In fact, I think Gilligan came out and said that when they wrote that in last season he had no idea what Walt was going to do with it.

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For the life of me, i cannot remember anything about the machine gun. jog my memory?

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ghostrunner wrote:Heard this take hinted at elsewhere and I like it -
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the supremacists are done with Walt and take Jesse to cook for them, especially since they now know about Andrea and Brock. Makes sense to me, since Walt told them not to come and they did anyway, and didn't seem to mind shooting at him. Walt has already turned them down, and they'll know his reputation from Todd. Would also explain the machine gun. No idea how Walt would manage to escape them though.
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Maybe haired Walt's scrambling to save Jessie in the Hi Carol scenes? Maybe you're implying that already. Also why did we watch Marie in therapy last week? That scene didn't seem real necessary (that episode was a bit of a drag in what's been an incredible season anyway), but if she killed Walt it'd be a bit obvious. I wonder if she'll accidentally kill Junior or something like that.

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Why does everybody assume the ricin will be smoked if it comes into play? It's just a convenient hiding place because the guy who kept it always had a pack of cigarettes on him.

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